The Dead Don't Debate

If one person decides he is going to hit the other, you can't stop him.  He has made his decision.

If a man decides to abuse his wife, he's going to.  You can't stop him.  You can only impose consequences afterwards.

In other words, you can't stop people from violence if that's what they have decided.
You can influence them before they make the decision.
You can enforce consequences after they take action.
But you can't really stop the action.

Sure, you could stand by the person and wait until they raise their hand and then stop the hand from striking.  But that's not practical.  That cannot happen.

I feel education concerning violence in human behavior should be required in schools.
I feel education concerning all human behavior should be required in schools.

I don't feel like there is any real required education regarding human behavior.
There is sex ed, but that seems to focus more on the sexual function of humans and the abstinance from sexual behavior, rather than why humans need sex, go without sex, make the choices they do regarding sex, etc.

Do we ever learn why we behave the way we do?
Are we ever given that kind of information or insight?
I don't think I was... was I?

Reading about Baltimore feels like a broken record.
There is a person.
Police get involved.
That person is no longer with us.
And then the people in the real world react to the loss of life, while the people on the internet spew hatred, mostly aimed at blaming the dead person and a set of hypothetical circumstances, along with misinformation, speculation, and a heaping dose of annonymity.
His hoodie was to blame. 
His upbringing was to blame. 
The drugs he had taken at one time were to blame.
He shouldn't have run.
He shouldn't have stayed still.
He shouldn't have been black.
He should have done something he didn't do.
And, more often than not, the internet turns on Obama. 
Jeez, why did Obama have to start the race riots?  Before he got here, everything was fine and everybody got along.  Now we're more divided than ever!
And often, the internet will blame the people who "get free stuff".

I often read angry posts from people complaining about those who "get free stuff".
The free-loaders.  Those who take advantage of the system.  Those we need to get rid of so that we can make a decent society for all of us... except those taking advantage of the system.
And I wonder why the angry poster, complaining of those getting free things, doesn't get free things, too.
I've gone to carnivals where t-shirts were being thrown at a crowd.  I didn't get a free t-shirt because one wasn't thrown close enough to me.  I've gone to baseball games where pop flies were hit into the stands, but not near where I was sitting.
But that doesn't really apply here, it seems.  Free thngs aren't being thrown.  They're being taken by... the takers.
Why don't the people who are angry just become takers?
What's preventing them from taking?
Do they know how to take?
Do they even know what's being taken?
Or is it just easier to reduce it to People Who Get Free Stuff?
When we do that, though, we don't have to think about what's really happening.

I'd like to make a movie.
Just get the Republican/Right Wing view point out there.
As clearly as it can be put forward.
I want to solicit people who post in forums on the internet.
And I want them to tell me, without judgement from me sitting there talking with them.
I want them to tell me who are the takers.
What are they taking.
Why aren't you taking.
What are the problems.
What are your solutions for those problems?

Because, right now, the problems are always blamed on the dead.
And the dead don't debate.